Allow transferring an imbalanced RCU lock state between subprog calls during verification. This allows patterns where a subprog call returns with an RCU lock held, or a subprog call releases an RCU lock held by the caller. Currently, the verifier would end up complaining if the RCU lock is not released when processing an exit from a subprog, which is non-ideal if its execution is supposed to be enclosed in an RCU read section of the caller. Instead, simply only check whether we are processing exit for frame#0 and do not complain on an active RCU lock otherwise. We only need to update the check when processing BPF_EXIT insn, as copy_verifier_state is already set up to do the right thing. Suggested-by: David Vernet <void@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@xxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c index 64fa188d00ad..993712b9996b 100644 --- a/kernel/bpf/verifier.c +++ b/kernel/bpf/verifier.c @@ -17698,8 +17698,7 @@ static int do_check(struct bpf_verifier_env *env) return -EINVAL; } - if (env->cur_state->active_rcu_lock && - !in_rbtree_lock_required_cb(env)) { + if (env->cur_state->active_rcu_lock && !env->cur_state->curframe) { verbose(env, "bpf_rcu_read_unlock is missing\n"); return -EINVAL; } -- 2.40.1